Buying an iPod before the holiday season. Advise wanted.

So. I really want to buy an iPod for my car/work/personal life. I used to own one but it was stolen... long story.
The one thing holding me back from buying an ipod now is weather or not a new ipod will be coming out in about 1-2 months here.
Similar thing happened to me last year when I bought a Powerbook G4 late nov./early dec. Then jan/feb roll around and there is new everything! macbook pros and intels everywhere. Lucky for me I got a defective Powerbook and was able to have it refunded and got myself a macbook pro.
So I need advise weather to hold off, and buy an ipod when a newer/better one comes out or just get one now? maybe just get a cheap nano, and buy a better one when it comes out?

This is always the case with computers and hardware - the minute you buy it, it is obsolete.
My fiancee bought a new PowerBook and then they brought out the Intel-based chipsets within a similar timeframe.
However, it is not such a problem for us as we need to run Classic applications for Chemistry and Intel-based Macs won't run classic as they have an emulator for PowerPC chipsets (you can't run an emulator in an emulator, it's suicide)!
Go for the purchase now, unless you wish to hold out for the January sales in wake of the holiday period.
Thinking of what will be developed next, I am sure that Apple will be thinking of more ways to develop iPods to out-shine Microsoft's Zune.

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HT1386 I cannot sync my iPod with the Playlists that I want. For example, I have all the songs in my classical Playlist checked but it doesn't appear in my iPod after syncing. Also I don't get an opportunity to review sync options.

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Thank you for the details of the issue you are experiencing with syncing music to your iPod. For issues like this, I recommend resyncing the music to your iPod.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12313
Thank you for posting in the Apple Support Communities.
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I have Windows Xp and I was wondering if I could purchase a new iPod with money from my Gift Certificates. I currently have an iPod nano and it won't hold all of my songs so I was going to get a more space efficient iPod. I don't have a credit card on my account right now, but I have plenty money credited to my account from Christmas. I have over $300, so I'd have enought to purchase an iPod there.
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Quoted from
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/giftcer
tificate/
"gift certificates are not accepted for online Apple
Store purchases."
The iTMS is only a place to purchase audio or video.
Apple does not offer any of it's own products for
purchase via the iTMS.
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Help me please (:

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please answer me

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Does anyone else hate the "holiday season"

sure i get off an extra day, but the whole weekend is driving around visiting my family as well as my g/f's family, NO time for myself
damn it!

Including the fact that the stores start celebrating it in July, and the driving all over, not to mention the tension between the in-laws---who get's more time with the grandkids--etc....
The endless piles of crap to fill up my tiny box of a house even further to overflowing... dollar store crap, and other things...
Yeah--I dread it--but the look on my 4 kids' faces when they decorated the tree -- priceless.

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... I don't think you can use this method if you drag a song to just one clip..
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#2 dragged some black in front = pushed photos aside
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